Time To Vote

This research project was a collaboration among Northeastern University’s School of Law (NuLawLab, CPIAC, and CRRJ), College of Social Sciences and the Humanities (Political Science and Dukakis Center), the Charlotte, North Carolina campus, and leading social good app developer Quadrant 2. We (1) deployed the custom mobile phone application Time to Vote during the November 2020 and January 2021 Georgia run-off elections to measure the amount of time people waited in line to vote (and other voting line behaviors) and collected observations about the polling places; (2) mapped the results in order to display any disparate geographic allocation of electoral resources the day after the election; and (3) combined our results with existing voting behavior research to assess the extent to which such allocation of electoral resources resulted in the disenfranchisement of racial minorities in our two study locations.